Wednesday, August 1st 2012Ayana JKT48: The Sleeping ExpertOne thing impossible to do at Ayana: waking her up!

Attention! One of JKT48’s members has a unique hobby. Ask Ayana Shahab about her hobby, and she would only spurt one word from her mouth.

“Sleep,” she answered when HAI asked it.

“I really like sleeping, and once I’ve even slept for 22 hours straight,” this member called A-chan continued.

Her sleeping hobby is also acknowledged by the other members too. Diasta told us that she’s been always confused about how to wake Ayana up once the girl falls asleep. “She’s really hard to woke up, even after I shook her so hard.” Diasta reminisced.

Ayana's mother, Naomi Hatoyama, is Japanese, from Osaka. Ayana most likely grew up mainly in Indonesia, so she and her sister speak Japanese, but may not read and write at the same level as a child growing up in Japan.

JKT48′s Ayana Shahab and Haruka Nakagawa get lost in Namba for 2 hours

On October 17th, Haruka Nakagawa (22) and Ayana Shahab (17) of JKT48 visited Osaka on behalf of Jakarta Tourism to accept the role of “Enjoy Jakarta Ambassadors” for the group.

Nakagawa explained that on the previous day she visited Namba for the first time. Shahab had lived in Osaka as a child, so she was going to take Nakagawa around. Instead the two got lost and roamed the city aimlessly for 2 hours. Eventually they made it to Namba Grand Kagetsu (NGK) where they were able to take a commemorative photo.

The girls commented, “The NMB48 theater is on the other side of NGK. Next time it would be nice if we could collaborate with NMB and help spread the word about Jakarta.”